What Should Know About Ubi MRT Station

Ubi MRT station is located near the intersection of Ubi Avenue 1 and Ubi Avenue 2 in the Geylang planning area of Singapore. The station serves industrial employees and residents in and around the Kampong Ubi estate. Ubi is a Malay term that means “tapioca.”

The Kampong Ubi Industrial Estate, where the station gets located, is named after it. The Malay term Ubi refers to the Tapioca plant, and the area was once a big community. Maha Bodhi School and Manjusri Secondary School are also more easily accessible. The  Ubi MRT station will also service the future Ubi Grove neighbourhood21-kilometre travelling by 2022.

History

The 16 stations of the 21-kilometre travelling (13-mile) Downtown Line Stage 3 (DTL3) from River Valley (formerly Fort Canning) to Expo stations were launched on August 20, 2010, and get expected to finish in 2017. In April 2011, SK Engineering & Building Co. Ltd was awarded Contract 930 for the Ubi station and accompanying tunnel construction for a value of S$161.71 million (US$128.57 million). The station and tunnels were supposed to be finished in2017, with construction starting in the second quarter of the current year. The station opened on October 21, 2017, as the Land Transport Authority had announced on May 31, 2017.

Platforms

Ubi station has two platforms in an island platform configuration, with trains travelling in both directions using both platforms. The air-conditioned station is separated from the tunnel environment by full-height Platform screen doors, which improve commuter safety and station comfort.

Expected train arrival times and messages get displayed on passenger information systems, which are plasma display panels positioned at each platform. The visually impaired can use tactile flooring to help them get from the platform to the exits.

Concourse

The concourse has faregates for automatic fee collection and access between the station’s paid and unpaid sectors and at least one bidirectional wide-swinging gate for passengers in wheelchairs, those carrying heavy objects, or those travelling with prams.

Commuters can buy single or multiple journey tickets from General Ticketing Machines, which also accept contactless card transactions. Commuters can make travel queries at the station office, which serves as a Passenger Service Centre during operating hours.

Art in Transit Zainudin Samsuri’s “Staple”

Part of Geylang gets renamed Kampong Ubi, which means tapioca village in Malay, during the Japanese occupation of Singapore. Tapioca had taken the place of rice as the primary food at the time since it was less expensive to grow. The plant’s leaves get employed as a styptic, and its starch, when mixed with rum, was used to cure skin issues. ‘Staple,’ a tapioca root abstraction, is inspired by Ubi’s history and the significance of the tapioca plant. In Singapore’s diverse and cosmopolitan society, the roots’ skeletal appearance indicates solidarity. ‘Staple’ gets planned to introduce generations of Singaporeans to the history of Ubi and its connection to the tapioca plant.